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Euro —Pedro Silva
Hi all, The European Central Bank has officially presented the Euro banknotes yesterday, so I thought this was the best moment to ask: are all of you ready for the upcoming change in currency throughout Europe? I mean, those of you who live inside (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.gr, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.lu, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.at, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.fi)

	Re: Euro —Todd Thuma
	What's a Euro? Todd (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.eu)

		Re: Euro —David Eaton
		(...) It's a new currency that many European countries are going (have just started!) to use instead of their own national currencies. So gradually the nations who are taking part in the project will begin to stop circulating their own currencies (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.eu)

			Re: Euro —Pedro Silva
			(...) Not quite accurate, but close enough. For the purists, I leave a few extra data: - Euro fixed exchange rates for the european monetary union currencies have been fixated on January 1st, 1999. By that time a Euro was worth close to 1,13 USD (if (...) (23 years ago, 1-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.eu)

	Re: Euro —Manfred Moolhuysen
	(...) I agree, and I'm ready for it. But are the banks also ? In my opinion, it should be made possible to transfer money by giro withoud any fees to any place in the eurozone. Banks will have considerably lest costs when they stop handeling all (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.eu)

		Re: Euro —Pedro Silva
		(...) Yeah, I've noticed. I paid 5000 ESP last February in Spain, and my bank charged me about 6000 PTE (which is the exact conversion) PLUS 500 PTE for fees! A real shame, I was expecting that intra-europe fees had been abolished (or at least (...) (23 years ago, 1-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.eu)